Board Resource Collection

William Spangler Library

The Board of Trustees Resource Collection is housed in the Board Resource room in the William Spangler Library, lower level of the Mays Landing campus. Library Hours can be found here.

The collection is continually updated, and at present includes the following:

Institutional Reserve Materials:

• Annual Budget Messages
• Annual Reports
• College Catalogs
• Environmental Scan Reports
• Excellence and Accountability Report
• Institutional Outcomes Reports
• Strategic Plan
• Program Reviews

Middle States Self-Study Document Collection:

• Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education
• Handbook for Conducting and Hosting an Evaluation Visit
• Standards for Accreditation and Requirements of Affiliation
• Forging A Shared Vision: A Framework for Positive Transformation at Atlantic Cape (2006)
• Self-Study for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education: Charting the Course for the Next 50 Years (2018)

Books

• Community College Trustees by Vaughn and Weisman
• The Rogue Trustee, The Elephant in the Room by Terry O'Banion
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation: Presidential Guidelines Series Vol. 1-6 (available online)

Periodicals:

• American Journal of Education and Assessment Update: Progress, Trends and Practices in Higher Education
• Association of Community College Trustees newsletter
• Chronicle of Higher Education (current issue in Periodicals Reading Area)
• Community College Journal of Research and Practice: Archives
• Community College Review: Archives (current issues in Periodicals Reading Area)
• Community College Week: Archives
• From the Desk - updates for NJCCC members
• Trusteeship Magazine by Association of Governing Boards

News Sources:

• Atlantic Cape Review (Please ask at Circulation Desk.)
• New York Times digital collection
• The Press of Atlantic City (Please ask at Circulation Desk.)

Online (Academic Search Premier, Ebscohost):

• Change (1990+)
• Community College Review (1990+)
• Community College Week (1996+)

For further information please contact the William Spangler Library at (609) 343-4951 or email library@atlanticcape.edu.